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bucolic_frolic

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4. The real source of deficits reveals itself

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 09:35 AM

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I keep wondering ... They DOGEd government ... fired hundreds of thousands of workers ... tariff revenue is hundreds of billions if not Trump's $1.2 Trillion estimate ... where's the money? Where did it go?

OH! My bad. It never made it to government coffers because it was paid to private entities. How slow am I?

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